Fox's Kilmeade Asks Black Co-host If She Makes Kool-Aid

[katietornado]

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A "Fox & Friends" segment on peach cobbler appeared to get uncomfortably tense when anchor Brian Kilmeade asked co-host Harris Faulkner if she serves Kool-Aid with her meals.

The question was dished out as Faulkner, who is African-American, presented her recipe ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

After Faulkner mentioned that a summer version of her cobbler can be prepared as well, Kilmeade, who is white, asked, “Do you make Kool-Aid?”

As the video above shows, the lively chatter among the four hosts came to a brief halt as Faulkner reacted.

What Kilmeade may or may not know is that the popular mixed drink can be used to racially stereotype African-Americans, similarly to fried chicken or watermelon.

"Uh, do I do what?" she asked.

"Do you make Kool-Aid?" he repeated.

"Uh, no. No, I don’t make Kool-Aid,” Faulkner replied as fellow host Steve Doocy stared quizzically at Kilmeade before asking him, "What?"

"It reminds me of summer,” Kilmeade replied, getting the gang chatting once again as Faulkner pointed out that she did bring an “adult beverage.”

[pixy0stix]

[katietornado]

Nov 27, 2015 15:06:09 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Donna Meagle is the perfect way to express my reaction to this.

[sfy]

People love to get cursed out around the holidays. That's cool that she's a nice lady and didn't give him what he needed. I'm not a nice lady. He would have gotten everything he wanted if he'd asked me that.

Canned peaches, though? No.

[underwaterrhymes]

Bull fucking shit it reminds him of summer.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 27, 2015 15:17:32 GMT -5 sfy said:

People love to get cursed out around the holidays. That's cool that she's a nice lady and didn't give him what he needed. I'm not a nice lady. He would have gotten everything he wanted if he'd asked me that.

Canned peaches, though? No.

Is this OK if it's peaches that one canned herself in the summer since fresh peaches available in November suck? Not that I can my own peaches. I'm just wondering.

[katietornado]

Nov 27, 2015 15:35:39 GMT -5 @tooshort said:

::moves past this foolishness:: I don't know any black people that have made kool aid in the last decade. Do people still drink it?

My H adores Kool-Aid.  We make it with Splenda and he'll drink an entire pitcher in a day.  I have to buy the packets in bulk on Amazon... that's how much he drinks.

[katfco]

Nov 27, 2015 15:35:39 GMT -5 @tooshort said:

::moves past this foolishness:: I don't know any black people that have made kool aid in the last decade. Do people still drink it?

My students sneak the powder in class and lick it off their hands. 

[omgzombies]

What a weird question to even ask.  I think it's kind of suspect that it would even come up in that particular segment.  

[omgzombies]

Nov 27, 2015 16:34:24 GMT -5 katfco said:

Nov 27, 2015 15:35:39 GMT -5 @tooshort said:

::moves past this foolishness:: I don't know any black people that have made kool aid in the last decade. Do people still drink it?

My students sneak the powder in class and lick it off their hands. 

[sushi]

Nov 27, 2015 16:34:24 GMT -5 katfco said:

Nov 27, 2015 15:35:39 GMT -5 @tooshort said:

::moves past this foolishness:: I don't know any black people that have made kool aid in the last decade. Do people still drink it?

My students sneak the powder in class and lick it off their hands. 

That was us at camp. Although my favorite was country time strawberry lemonade.

I do buy kool-aid. The lemon without sugar. It's great for cleaning my nespresso. Apparently I néed a seasonal coffee from Starbucks and uggs

[NewOrleans]

sigh

[skwcm80]

Nov 27, 2015 16:53:54 GMT -5 sushi said:

Nov 27, 2015 16:34:24 GMT -5 katfco said:

My students sneak the powder in class and lick it off their hands. 

That was us at camp. Although my favorite was country time strawberry lemonade.

I do buy kool-aid. The lemon without sugar. It's great for cleaning my nespresso. Apparently I néed a seasonal coffee from Starbucks and uggs

We did this at camp too, Great Bluedini was our flavor of choice. We dared one of bunk mates to sniff it once, she didn't sleep at all that night.

13 year olds are idiots, as is that dude in the OP. Bullshit Koolaid reminds him of summer.

[katfco]

Nov 27, 2015 16:40:27 GMT -5 omgzombies said:

Nov 27, 2015 16:34:24 GMT -5 katfco said:

My students sneak the powder in class and lick it off their hands. 

Yeah. We've tried to talk to them about how gross it is, but 6th graders don't exactly have a good sense of the long-term effects of their decisions. 


As to the OP, when I first saw that story elsewhere, I was initially shocked that someone could be so tone-deaf, but after about a half second, I realized yes, unfortunately people really are that tone-deaf. Especially those hired by Fox News. At this point, I'm pretty sure, "Do you hold blatant racist assumptions?" is a qualifying question on their applications. 

[jln]

Nov 27, 2015 16:34:24 GMT -5 katfco said:

Nov 27, 2015 15:35:39 GMT -5 @tooshort said:

::moves past this foolishness:: I don't know any black people that have made kool aid in the last decade. Do people still drink it?

My students sneak the powder in class and lick it off their hands. 

Snorting kool aid powder was all the rage at my middle school.

[katfco]

Nov 27, 2015 18:03:06 GMT -5 jln said:

Nov 27, 2015 16:34:24 GMT -5 katfco said:

My students sneak the powder in class and lick it off their hands. 

Snorting kool aid powder was all the rage at my middle school.

Oh good, now I have another thing to worry about. 

[sfy]

Nov 27, 2015 15:51:21 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Nov 27, 2015 15:17:32 GMT -5 sfy said:

People love to get cursed out around the holidays. That's cool that she's a nice lady and didn't give him what he needed. I'm not a nice lady. He would have gotten everything he wanted if he'd asked me that.

Canned peaches, though? No.

Is this OK if it's peaches that one canned herself in the summer since fresh peaches available in November suck? Not that I can my own peaches. I'm just wondering.

That would be okay. My grandmother used to can peaches and make preserves from them and that was fine, but those peaches weren't home-canned. Really, though, let's just let seasonal food be seasonal. I know you can respect this train of thought.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 27, 2015 18:40:47 GMT -5 sfy said:

Nov 27, 2015 15:51:21 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Is this OK if it's peaches that one canned herself in the summer since fresh peaches available in November suck? Not that I can my own peaches. I'm just wondering.

That would be okay. My grandmother used to can peaches and make preserves from them and that was fine, but those peaches weren't home-canned. Really, though, let's just let seasonal food be seasonal. I know you can respect this train of thought.

Absolutely. That's why apple pie and pear crisp are fall things.

And February is a time for ice cream and despair.

[meshaliuknits]

Nov 27, 2015 18:51:40 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Nov 27, 2015 18:40:47 GMT -5 sfy said:

That would be okay. My grandmother used to can peaches and make preserves from them and that was fine, but those peaches weren't home-canned. Really, though, let's just let seasonal food be seasonal. I know you can respect this train of thought.

Absolutely. That's why apple pie and pear crisp are fall things.

And February is a time for ice cream and despair.

LOL There are still oranges!

[tacosforlife]

Nov 27, 2015 18:58:22 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Nov 27, 2015 18:51:40 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Absolutely. That's why apple pie and pear crisp are fall things.

And February is a time for ice cream and despair.

LOL There are still oranges!

I forgot about that because I was only thinking local. I do love a good orange.

[sfy]

Nov 27, 2015 19:23:59 GMT -5 pennypenny said:

I do not like peach cobbler. Well, I do not like peaches so I have never had peach cobbler. By my family fights over it like it is the best thing ever so sometimes I feel like I am missing out.

A good peach cobbler is outstanding! Too many people are making average cobblers, however. My sister in law, for one, and all my ILs act like its amazing. I'll probably DD that. . But, then again, I don't understand not liking peaches. The right peach is a gift from above. Even though I'm in Georgia, the best peaches to be had are out in the country (sometimes, my local market has California peaches, even in the summer, which I'll never understand). When we went to my maternal family reunion (which is so deep in Georgia that there is an auction slave block still standing in town :-|), the peaches were so ripe and juicy. Jesus. I felt like those were the first real peaches I ever ate. They were like dessert!

[meshaliuknits]

A ripe peach is a slice of heaven. High fruit season (you may know it as summer) is the best.

[wise_rita]

[sfy]

Nov 27, 2015 20:42:01 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

A ripe peach is a slice of heaven. High fruit season (you may know it as summer) is the best.

How dare you.

[Deleted]

I keep reading the title as 'kill-me-ade' and thinking it's some kind of juice.

[emisi]

What a weird thing to suddenly just come up with. No way it made him think of summer.

Also, I just discovered peaches I canned two years ago in my pantry. They have half a vanilla bean each in the juice with them, they're so gooooooooooooood.

I love peach everything, but H is allergic to peaches.  

[WOT?*]

Sounds to me like Kilmeade has been partaking of the Fox Kook-Aid a little too long.

ETA: KOOL-Aid but I'm keeping it because it's both a funny slip and a totally appropriate one.

[orangeblossom]

Nov 27, 2015 19:23:59 GMT -5 pennypenny said:

I do not like peach cobbler. Well, I do not like peaches so I have never had peach cobbler. By my family fights over it like it is the best thing ever so sometimes I feel like I am missing out.

You are not missing out. I do not like peaches either. I was trying to feed my nephew a peaches/banana mixture yesterday and almost gagged.

[oscarnerdjulief]

I had no idea that kool-aid was used to stereotype. When I heard that people were upset with him, I thought they were making a Jim Jones reference, although I read that it's actually Flavor Aid.

[summer]

Nov 27, 2015 19:23:59 GMT -5 pennypenny said:

I do not like peach cobbler. Well, I do not like peaches so I have never had peach cobbler. By my family fights over it like it is the best thing ever so sometimes I feel like I am missing out.

I love peach cobbler, but this is what you need to d; my scoops look like this:

96% crust (because my grandma's jiffy pie crust the damned TRUTH)
3.5% peach juice
.5%  peaches

My granny always complained that after I was through with the cobber it was just a tray of peaches.